1. Many fine cooks insist on ingredients of the highest quality.
A) demand
B) rely on
C) prepare for
D) create
2. Since the Great Depression, the United States government has protected farmers from damaging drops in grain prices.
A) slight
B) surprising
C) sudden
D) harmful
3. Cement was seldom used in building during the Middle Ages.
A) crudely
B) rarely
C) originally
D) symbolically¹
4. Nerve signals may travel through nerve or muscle fibers² at speeds as high as two hundred miles per hour.
A) velocities³
B) impulses
C) ratios
D) atrocities⁴
5. The poet William Carols Williams was a New Jersey⁵ physician.
A) doctor
B) professor
C) physicist⁶
D) resident
6. Medicine depends on other fields for basic information, particularly some of their specialized⁷ branches.
A) conventionally
B) obviously
C) especially
D) inevitably⁸
7. We shall take the treasure away to a safe place.
A) clean
B) pretty
C) distant
D) secure
8. An important part of the national government is the Foreign Service, a branch of their specialized branches.
A) a unity⁹
B) a division
C) an embassy
D) an invasion
9. The child’s abnormal behavior puzzled the doctor.
A) bad
B) frightening
C) repeated
D) unusual
10.There is an abundant supply of cheap labor¹⁰ in this country. 
A) a steady  
B) a plentiful 
C) an extra  
D) a meager 
11.In order to improve our standard of living, we have to accelerate production. 
A) step up  
B) decrease 
C) stop  
D) control 
12.Gas does accumulate in the mines around here. 
A) increase  
B) spread 
C) collect  
D) grow 
13. Our plan is to allocate¹¹ one member of staff to handle appointments. 
A) assign  
B) persuaded 
C) ask  
D) order 
14. Her behavior is extremely childish. 
A) simple  
B) immature 
C) beautiful  
D) foolish 
15. We also want to use the water to irrigate¹² barren desert land. 
A) hairless  
B) bare 
C) empty  
D) bald  
Key :ADBAA CDBDB ACABB

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